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The old age testing maxim was “Automation Reaps Cost Benefits”. Thrilled with the prospects of achieving cost benefits and better quality, organizations adopted test automation methodologies and tools only to find themselves grappling with increased costs, higher timelines and lower tool utilization. Studies indicate that 63% of test automation projects fail due to multitude of factors – • Wrong choice and underutilization of testing tools • Lack of reusability of test cases and components, • Need for script development effort each time automation tool is used, and • Need for technical experts along with subject matter experts. The new age testing maxim is “Intelligent Automation Reaps Cost Benefits”. This gives rise to the question - How to do Intelligent Automation? The answer – Framework driven Test Automation. Framework driven test automation enables 80 organizations to better their test automation 70 approach and realize cost benefits. Our experience in executing testing projects for fortune 500 clients across the globe have Percentage 60 50 40 30 shown that framework driven test 20 automation can enable organizations realize close to 70% savings in effort across 10 0 Savings in Effort Savings in Time design, development, scripting and execution stages of testing. Design & Development Test Suite Maintenance Test Case Scripting Overview The need for reducing manual effort and timelines in carrying out testing by deploying tool sets for applying test cases repetitively led to the adoption of test automation. However, the dynamic business landscape has led to a scenario wherein the need for reduced costs and better quality is all the more aggravating – leading to the creation of gaps in effective execution of testing. Framework based test automation aims to bridge these gaps through a set of assumptions, concepts, and practices that provide support for automated testing. Creating a base platform or support for automated testing, these frameworks enable test cases to be abstracted to logical levels, stored and executed in a consistent manner. Abstraction of test cases helps subject matter experts with minimal technical knowledge to use automation tools, reducing dependency on technical experts. Value. Accelerated.
Evolution Framework based test automation has evolved from capture replay approach (one of the earlier modes) to script based, data driven and keyword driven approaches. Manual Testing Capture & Replay Script Based Data Driven Keyword Driven Hybrid Approach Capture & Replay: An approach wherein the various phases of a test case on execution are captured and maintained in a repository. The test case can then be replayed with changes in test data to obtain results. This approach suffers from the disadvantage of being time consuming and expensive when running complex test cases due to the inability to record such cases and maintain them. Script Based: A technique in which a technical expert generates scripts specific to the automation tool used along with the test data. This approach suffers from the disability of having to hard code test data into test scripts each time the test script gets executed. Data Driven: A technique where a single test script is used repeatedly with varying input and response data that comes from a predefined data set (data files such as data pools, ODBC sources, cvs files, Excel files, DAO objects, ADO objects etc). This approach suffers from the disability of taking more time to build, track and maintain test scripts. Keyword Driven: This framework requires the development of keywords, each keyword independent of the test automation tool used to execute them and the test script code that "drives" the application-under-test and the data. In this approach, discrete functional business events that make up any application are described using a short text description (Keyword) and associated parameter value pairs (arguments). Hybrid Approach: A framework that can be both keyword driven while also providing enhanced functionality for data driven scripts. This allows data driven scripts to take advantage of the powerful libraries and utilities that usually accompany a keyword driven architecture. On the other hand it allows the usage of scripts to perform some tasks that might be too difficult to reimplement in a pure keyword driven approach, or where the keyword driven capabilities are not yet in place. Value. Accelerated.
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